Month: September 2014

Last week I was on the road driving long distance bisecting the country south to north – Texas to Montana – and return. While in Texas, which was a large portion of the trek, I took pictures of some of the road signs of unique-named destinations. The added caption came to mind the instant I saw Fluvanna. There will be more one-offs, if

My mother asked that question rhetorically many times of our family dogs as we were growing up. But what do animals ponder? Or can they? That question stuck with me and seems more intriguing as the years pass now surrounded by differing animals in a farm setting. The bird you can barely see at the top of the tree is a Red-shouldered

I returned home from a few days of road travel and quickly checked to see if the shack was okay, it was. And I expected to see my three stalwart spiders still hanging on their respective webs; Dos and Tres were, but the oldest of the three – Uno – was nowhere to be found. It sounds strange to be

It started out as a simple morning ride down a pastoral road. Wait, what is that over there to the left? It’s a loose dog. His tongue is hanging; he’s racing frantically along the road going in the opposite direction. Am I going to callously drive by an opportunity to save an abandoned canine? I could at least take him

Since late spring I have had the good fortune to observe three yellow garden spiders living here. All three – females – hang on their webs upside down, and outside; but each does this against window glass in separate locations. It’s interesting to see they all selected a similar spot to take up residence. I’ve named them Spider Uno, Spider